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Status Symbols. Russian expansionism goes back to the czarist days of Peter the Great, who coveted the warm water ports of the Mediterranean. Though the Kremlin has soft-pedaled the Communist imperative to spread the red flag wherever possible, such ideological expansion continues to affect Soviet conduct. The most important element in the Soviet thrust, as British Kremlinologist Victor Zorza notes, is that "the Soviets are a great power, and they want the facilities that go with great-power status." Those facilities include not only markets for Soviet industry and sources of raw materials, but also the fleets, bases...
...Russia after the overthrow of the Romanov Czars; of heart disease; in Manhattan. A moderate socialist who first gained prominence as an eloquent defense attorney, Kerensky turned against Czar Nicholas II after the "Bloody Sunday" massacre of 1905, in which a procession of workers was cut down by Czarist troops. Reassured by constitutional reforms, he sided with the regime and was elected to the Duma (Parliament) in 1912. When repression increased again during World War I, Kerensky began to speak out against the Czar, and in the revolution that followed, eventually took over the provisional government. When General Lavr Kornilov...
...Southern Senator." Fat lecture invitations are as available as women anxious to add a famous notch to their bedposts. In the three funniest adventures, Bech is sent by the State Department on a cultural-exchange junket behind the Iron Curtain. The tableaux of culturecrats in opulent neo-czarist settings undoubtedly come from Updike's memories of his own U.S.-sponsored tour of Russia in 1964. For Bech. the trip proves to be a sort of thinking man's "Mission: Impossible," in which Bech must make his way through the claustrophobic air ducts of Communist literary life...
...gifts from America-a small Russian flag that was carried on Apollo 11 and some chips of moon rock mounted in Lucite. Later, touring the Kremlin Armory museum with Cosmonaut Georgy Beregovoy, he joked that there had been no fair exchange. Beregovoy indicated the museum's display of czarist crown jewels. "Pick one," he said. Armstrong pointed. "Fine," said the Russian. "That will cost you $300 million." Replied Armstrong: "I think I'll wait until they sell it at half price...
THAT statement by Lenin referred to the czarist forces of Nicholas II. The Soviet army of today is still isolated, though not much more so than armies of other major powers. Perhaps the greatest difference is that it enjoys far higher prestige and power within its country than its Western counterparts do in theirs. Though bureaucracy and inertia beset much of Soviet society, the highly trained military is less inefficient than many other sectors of Soviet life...